Dear Hymenopterists, to celebrate the release of Wasps: The Astonishing Diversity of a Misunderstood Insect by Eric R. Eaton, Princeton University Press is offering a 30% discount to ISH members valid for their complete collection of books on Insects & Spiders until the end of the year. Just use the code  (click here to see the code – must logged-in and be a financial member) at checkout.

During Hymathon 2021, the ISH executive committee awarded the following:

ISH 2020 Distinguished Research Medal: Donald Quicke

ISH Service Award: Natalie Dale-Skey

Student Presentation Competition winners: Aymer Andrés Vásquez Ordóñez (Americas session), Jessa Thurman (Australasian session), Michael Haas (Europe, Middle East, Africa Session).

We hope you enjoyed presenting or attending #Hymathon2021. Please let us know how we can improve the next ISH online symposium by completing the brief survey at the link below.

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In 2021, The International Society of Hymenopterists (ISH) proudly presented:

#Hymathon2021: a 24 hour marathon online symposium dedicated to all aspects of the order Hymenoptera!

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Watch the recorded talks

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In 2021, The International Society of Hymenopterists (ISH) proudly presents:

#Hymathon2021: a 24 hour marathon online symposium dedicated to all aspects of the order Hymenoptera!

24 hours of Hymenoptera? What more could you ask for!?

Following the success of the 2020 online symposia, the ISH #Hymathon2021 will stretch across time zones to allow the participation of as many members as possible.

Beginning 6 May 2021, 19:30 GMT, Hymathon will start with a North, Central and Southern American session (ie, 6 May afternoon local time), leading into an Australasian session (ie, 7 May afternoon local time), and finishing with a European, Middle Eastern and African session (ie, 7 May afternoon local time).

Time zones getting you confused already? Don’t worry: all times will be confirmed closer to the date, along with a full program and Zoom links for the different sessions, keynote presentation and social gatherings. ISH will also be presenting the 2020 Service Award and 2020 Distinguished Research Medal during the symposium, as these were not awarded last year.

Present during #Hymathon2021!

We invite all ISH members to present a talk during #Hymathon2021, and particularly encourage students, early career members and researchers from a diverse range of countries to present. We encourage presentations on all aspects of Hymenoptera: behaviour, biology, systematics, biological control, evolution and more!

Talks are limited to one per presenter, and will be in 15 minute intervals (12 minutes for the presentation with 3 minutes for questions).

To register to either attend the conference and/or your interest in presenting a talk, please complete the registration form above. Please register talks by Thursday, April 22nd (your local time).

Note: You will need to be a financial member, and logged in to the website to register for the symposium.

Congratulations to our student prize winners from the 2020 ISH vitual symposia!

First Prize:

Cristina Vasilița, from University „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” in Iași: A rare genus calls into question the morphological monotony of Trissolcus Ashmead.

Joint Second Prize:

Lucas Hearn, from Flinders University, South Australia: Temporal variation in parasite pressure: niche partitioning of seven parasitoids driven by host resource utilisation.

Ernesto Samacá, from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México: Systematics and evolution of different phytophagous strategies in Allorhogas (Braconidae: Doryctinae) and other gall-associated related genera

Honorable Mentions:

Jessica Awad, from State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart: The Perils of Platygaster

Marina Moser, from State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart: Ancient amber meets modern methods: Using micro-CT scanning to describe new species of Spalangiopelta from Baltic amber

Jonah Ulmer, from State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart: The Waterston’s Organ of Ceraphronidae: A morphological barcode to a cryptic taxon

ISH Business Meeting and symposia

The Society held it’s annual business meeting online via Zoom on Thursday 12 November at 3:30 pm CST (UTC -6) alongside the first online symposia program, which from 2021 was coined ‘Hymathon’.

Online symposia for current ISH members took place live in three time zones.

PROGRAM: Download the pdf of the symposia program here

Thanks to our fabulous editor, Carly Tribull, the new issue of the society newsletter is published and available for your reading pleasure!

You can find a copy of the newsletter here (remember that you will need to be a member of the society and signed in to access recent newsletters).

Not yet a member, or let your membership lapse? Join now!

Are you an ISH member, and a student or Early Career Professional or Researcher? Shelby Kilpatrick, the society student representative, would like you to complete a survey by Friday 5th June 2020, so that she can learn about your interests and how she can support them:

https://forms.gle/ya7L7sf4k8hgZfP28

Miles Zhang, our Social Media Officer, has created a form for student and Early Career members who would like to be considered as a potential journal manuscript reviewers to sign up on: https://forms.gle/aUZDMw11GdtNhmms8. Please view the message at the top of the form for additional details. We hope that this form creates opportunities for our members!

For information: the International Congress of Entomology has been postponed until July 2021 (see information on https://ice2020helsinki.fi/). For people who intended to attend and present, note in particular that

* already accepted abstracts remain accepted, and can be freely edited by authors to reflect new research, until April 30, 2021.
* submission deadline for new abstracts is extended until the end of February 2021.

Information on the ISH business meeting and symposium that was scheduled to take place during the Congress will be circulated at a later stage.